Waiting for Meaning, by Marlene Dumas While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life. (source) This fails to surprise me. Here’s my explanation: The poor live within an insulated bubble of meaning and ignorance, and you lose both when that…

This will be a strange post. I just finished the Harry Potter series, and I’m a bit overwhelmed. I’m quite sure it’s the best series I’ve ever read in many ways. Not in all ways, but in many. Perhaps in most that matter. Anyway, I’ll come back to that later; that’s not the important part. While reading it…